Spark and content management

You can combine the Spark Plans with your own ACL setup

• https://laracasts.com/search?q=acl&q-where=lessons in combination with
• https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/authentication

Logic goes like

Plan defines the abilities a user should have

check any given abiltiy with the Authorization Laravel offers e.g. Gate:: Facades

It's a bit of work to be done, but nothing overly complicated as far as I can see.

I'd be interested to see where you take this. Me personally, I went with a markdown approach for "pages", with a custom controller. I enjoy the simplicity of creating MD files, dropping them into a folder, and done. Below is how I'm doing "pages".

• I have a controller called MarkdownPageController, in it is the following:

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use App\Http\Requests;

use Parsedown;

class MarkdownPageController extends Controller
{

    /** @var This is the directory that stores the MD files */
    private $markdown_dir;

    /**
     * Assign our variables
     */
    public function __construct( Parsedown $parsedown )
    {
        $this->markdown_dir = base_path('content/');
        $this->parsedown = $parsedown;
    }

    /**
     * Attempts to parse a given file. If file does not exists the
     * Laravel HTTP 404 error is generated.
     *
     * @uses abort() See more at: https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/errors#http-exceptions
     * @param (string) $file_name The name of the markdown file
     */
    public function getContent( $file_name )
    {
        $page_exists = @file_get_contents($this->markdown_dir.$file_name.'.md');

        if ( $page_exists !== false ){
            $content = $this->parsedown->text( $page_exists );
        } else {
            abort(404);
        }

        return $content;
    }

    /**
     * Assigns a few variables, and passes it off to the view.
     */
    public function show( $page )
    {

        return view('content', [
            'slug'    => strtolower( str_replace([' ','_'], '-', $page)),
            'content' => $this->getContent( $page )
        ]);

    }

}

• Then later in my routes (its the last route), $router->get('/{page}', 'MarkdownPageController@show');